Australia

Perth International Arts Festival: The Library of My Mind
24 February, 3:30 p.m.

John Freeman and Ramona Koval live and breathe books and between them have interviewed nearly every major name in fiction. They discuss the importance of books to their lives and the authors they return to again and again with Rachel Robertson.

A Granta Celebration: John Freeman in conversation with Stephen Romei
26 February, 6 p.m., Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales 2038. Free, RSVP to Gleebooks on tel: 9660 2333 or email events@gleebooks.com.au.

Join John Freeman, the editor of Granta, in conversation with Stephen Romei to celebrate the internationally acclaimed literary journal.

Freeman authored The Tyranny of Email and How to Read a Novelist, is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle, and has written for the New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent.

18:00 for 18:30 start, with FREE Granta calico totes to the first 50 people through the door, and some free drinks too!

PLUS SPECIAL OFFER: Purchase the latest issue Granta 122: Betrayal and receive a free backlist title.